London Mayoral Election 2012 (Live Updates)

02/04/2012 16:22
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Updated
10 April 2012

HuffPost UK Staff
The Huffington Post UK

With just under a month to go until the 3rd of May, the campaign to become the next Mayor of London is hotting up.

Boris Johnson seeking re-election for a second term, and Ken Livingstone his main challenger. The Labour candidate, who was the inaugural London Mayor in 2000 and who held the post for eight years, is seeking to prove to Londoners
that he deserves his old job back.

The latest poll shows Boris five points ahead, with evidence that Livingstone's tax efficiency measures (paying lots of his salary into a holding company which appears to do nothing) and his highly controversial comments about Jews have const him support.

"The important point about a chocolate digestive is that it combines the temptation of the chocolate with the nourishment of the wholemeal biscuit pabulum stuff" he said.

"Each biscuit delivers on that promise, time after time, until you get to the bottom of the packet. It is about consistency and reliability. It does what it says on the packet. That is the essence of my commitment to London" he added.

17/04/2012 10:52 BST

People are fed up with macho politics, says @Siobhan4Mayor

“It’s all about how do you get a headline, how many policy announcements can you make in any one week, before they’re probably thought through, before the risks are properly understood. So actually a lot of the time what ministers are putting out to the public is never going to work. And the public haven’t been brought in to shape that.”

She said that she stood for Mayor as she wanted to provide something "different".